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 One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck
 One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck ... novel of 1970s' counterculture - finds herself in a predicament. Abandoned by her carefree, jet-set mother and emotionally tortured artist father, Alice falls under the erratic supervision of her sixteen-year-old aunt Esme. Yet, when Alice goes to North Carolina to attend the Balthus Institute, an unorthodox art school for gifted children, circumstances go from bad to worse. Possessing 'a kid's head grafted on a woman's body', young Alice faces the disturbing realities of reckless excess and an accelerated adolescence. Inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this electrifying tale vividly portrays the more sinister reaches of 1970s American counter-culture and is an audacious, fiercely original account of a young girl's crossing into adulthood.Newest Review: ... off to the Balthus Institute for a while. The Institute is a place she can work on her art, rather than getting the wrong ... more ... kind of attention. However, the Institute is to be Alice's introduction into the worlds of sex and drug taking. Normally there might not necessarily be anything wrong with that. The problem here is that Alice is only eleven years old.
Even knowing this, it's a wonderful book to read. Set in the 1970s, it's very much a modern tale and written in the language of a relatively recent popular culture. Although written in the third person, this is the tale of an eleven year old girl and so is written in her language. ...more |
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One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck: Swallow This! (776 words)
by - written on 17/10/05 (Very useful, 240 readings)
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It seems that most of the books that fall into my hands at the moment are a little bit strange. Not in the way they're written necessarily, but in terms of the subject matter. With a title like "One Pill Makes You Smaller", I should have guessed the same should be true of Lisa Dierbeck's debut novel. However, given that the title and the blurb compare the book to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", I expected it to be a bit left of centre, but essentially harmless. Alice isn't really having a terribly good time of things. Her father has gone mad and her mother has just gone. She's been left in the care of her half-sister who she called ... Read the complete review
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